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• Rakes, shovels, hoes, and spades are some of the tools of the gardener's trade.From the entry tool
• No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.From the entry motive
• An hour of snow shoveling kind of wiped me out more than I expected.From the entry wipe out
• You should see him out there in the snow, shoveling for all he's worth.From the entry for all one is worth
• A single shovel test was all we needed to show the site's importance.From the entry shovel test
• They were contracted to shovel test only within the proposed pipeline's right of way.From the entry shovel test
• Back then, the digging of sewers was done largely by day men with shovels and picks.From the entry day man
• The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.From the entry exhume
• I shoveled the snow off of my sidewalk.From the entry shoveled
• I shovelled the snow off the pavement.From the entry shovelled
• The brakeman had to help the fireman shovel coal into the firebox as the engineer coaxed his locomotive up grade.From the entry fire box
• The snow was shoveled up too close to the sidewalk.From the entry shovel up
• After not picking up a shovel for twenty years, she finally saw the beauty in flowers and declared herself a born-again gardener.From the entry born-again
• That was during the gold fever, when strangers descended on the town and all the shovels were plum sold out at the general store.From the entry gold fever
• We had to use the toilet in the woods when we went camping, so we carried bog rolls and small shovels everywhere we went.From the entry use the toilet
• I haven't as much dirt in this pile as I would like; I think that I shall adstruct it by shovelling more dirt on top.From the entry adstruct
• Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, we can expect to be doing a lot of shoveling tomorrow.From the entry in any case
• Then she sorted herself out, making sure her pickaxe and shovel were properly holstered to her.2025, Angel Luis Colón, Minecraft: House of Horrors, page 68. From the entry holster
• Armed with shovels, gloves and headlamps, the team followed their map to the dig site.2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry weber
• Thank you so much." I walked to the bus stop, shoveling the doughnut into my mouth.2018, Susin Nielsen, No Fixed Address, Tundra, →ISBN. From the entry one for the road
• Most psammophilic species have expanded tibiae that function as shovels when these beetles are burrowing.2016, Rolf G. Beutel, Richard A.B. Leschen, Coleoptera, Beetles. Morphology and Systematics, →ISBN. From the entry psammophilic
• These men went around with wooden pallets with which they shoveled snow off the flat rooved houses.2016, Gail Rose Thompson, All the Shah’s Men, Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 343. From the entry rooved
• A fellow named Tajoo came out of the back dam carrying a shovel on his shoulder.2012, Hanif Gulmahamad, “Notorious Fowl Thieves of the Village”, in Guyana Memories, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry backdam
• I take up the shovel and hold it aloft like a gidgee, but the centipede has disappeared.2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 96. From the entry gidgee
• Cows, or something bigger, hoove the ground, pick at it, shovel up the dirt around my foot.1988 spring, William Tester, “Darling”, in Gordon Lish, editor, The Quarterly, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, page…. From the entry hoove
• The drivers of bulldozers, drotts, and other types of mechanical shovels worked long hours in appalling weather.1969, Nan Bowie, Mick Bowie: the Hermitage Years, page 158. From the entry drott
• With the help of a screwback shovel, it was excavated to a depth of 13 ft.1968, Civic Administration - Volume 20, page 61. From the entry screwback
• I’ve shoveled up the gypsum till it nigh on makes you choke.1964, Ron Angel, “The ICI Song”. From the entry nigh on
• Supposing some super-supernatural scientist could examine the ether as we examine a shovel full of earth?1922, Edgar Wallace, Captain of Souls, Small, Maynard and Company, page 206. From the entry super-supernatural
• A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.1912, Victor Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway. From the entry weird
• Thunder rumbled and a light rain rashed down as Bella shoveled the pile of loose dirt back into the ground.2024 May 7, David Ciminello, The Queen of Steeplechase Park, Forest Avenue Press, →ISBN. From the entry rash
• Construction was carried out by navvies armed with picks and shovels, with very little understanding of the underlying geology.2024 March 20, Richard Foster, “Vital experience in an open-air classroom”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 60. From the entry at the mercy of
• Walt shovels a circle of snow in his backyard, then hoses the bare earth to a sheen ice blue.2020, Walter Wangerin Jr., Ascent/Descent, page 45. From the entry sheen
• The student army carried on shovelling liquefaction and the women in the homes nearby fed them without a thought.2019, Frances McCaughey -, Carrig Of Dromara. From the entry liquefaction

Meaning of shovel

1. noun A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
2. noun A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
3. noun Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.

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Questions about shovel in a sentence

How do you use shovel in a sentence?

Shovel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.”

What is a short sentence with shovel?

“I shovelled the snow off the pavement.”

What does shovel mean?

Shovel means a hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.